DAY DRILL

DAY DRILL

Your home is day drill. If you are not up to day drill, how can you expect to go through your evolutions on a field day? “Prepare thy work ... and make it fit for thyself in the field” (Proverbs 24: 27).

There is a tone and a ring about one who has controlled himself at home, which must tell on others when he is abroad. If I have practised restraint where I am free to do as I like, I can submit to it with ease and truthfulness when it is required of me.

To be always in buckle and armour is very irksome, but the sorest part of the exercise is getting inured to it.

When used to accoutrements your trouble is all but over, but it will not do to dispense with them at home and to have to run for them when you have an enemy at the door.

You must be a soldier of the line, on the parade ground every morning. Habit is second nature, and when you are well up to drill at home you will be ready for all that is required of you in open battle.